Gypsies, from the Ganges to the Thames
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Gypsies, from the Ganges to the Thames
(Interface collection, 3)
University of Hertfordshire Press, c2004
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Part one of this book was previously published as: Gypsies, from India to the Mediterranean. Toulouse : CRDP, 1993"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This illustrated text tracing the origin of the Gypsies in India and their journey westward up until their arrival on the shores of the Mediterranean at Constantinople was first published in France in 1993 (in French and English) as "Gypsies - From India to the Mediterranean" but the English edition was not easily obtainable in this country. It has since been translated into ten European languages including Romani. The new title reflects the fact that this new edition published in Britain by the University of Hertfordshire Press is more than twice the length of the first edition and follows their path to the shores of the Thames and also looks at their distant relatives who stayed in India or dropped off on the way west and still carry on a nomadic life in Persia and neighbouring countries. A controversial addition of particular interest to historians, linguists and academics researching the origin of the Romanies is the introduction which looks at popular and scholarly theories of the origins of the Gypsies. And of contemporary interest there is a chapter describing how links are being forged between Europe's last nomads and modern India.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction - who are the Romanies? Part One
- 1. From India to Persia: 224 - 642
- 2 Under Arab Rule: 642 - c. 900
- 3. In the Byzantine Empire: c.900 - 1454
- Part Two
- 4. In the Balkans
- 5. In Central Europe
- 6. In Western Europe - Refugees
- 7. In Western Europe - Acrobats and Fortune Tellers
- Part Three
- 8. 'Gypsies' in the Middle East
- 9. Mother India
- Conclusion
- The Romani language
- List of illustrations
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